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2001
Digital signature is a breakthrough of modern cryptographic systems. A (t, n) threshold digital signature allows every set of cardinality t or more (out-of n) co-signers to authenticate a message. In almost all existing threshold digital signatures the threshold parameter t is fixed.
Hossein Ghodosi, Josef Pieprzyk
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Digital signature is a breakthrough of modern cryptographic systems. A (t, n) threshold digital signature allows every set of cardinality t or more (out-of n) co-signers to authenticate a message. In almost all existing threshold digital signatures the threshold parameter t is fixed.
Hossein Ghodosi, Josef Pieprzyk
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Making Democratic Theory Democratic
2023This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character
Stephen Turner, George Mazur
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Democratic Despotism, Democratic Culture, and the Democratic Ideal
The MonistAbstract In this paper, I outline Du Bois’s WWI-era theory of democracy, which comprises three parts: first, an historically specific explanation of the racially exclusionist character of the modern struggle for democracy; second, a justification of universal suffrage; and third, an account of democratic culture, the promotion of which ...
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Europe’s Democratic Deficit and Democratic Surplus
2020The European Union’s founders learned about politics in the late nineteenth century, long before democracy became the touchstone for legitimacy. They relied on the traditional authority of the state to negotiate agreements with other countries. Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gaspari saw themselves as trustees of the common interests of ...
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The Consequences of Democratization
Journal of Democracy, 2009Abstract: For the past few decades, scholars have been focusing on the causes of democratization. It is now time to devote systematic attention to analyzing the costs and benefits that democracy brings.
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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory
2017This chapter explains how political theory becomes disengaged from political facts. If the political theorists do not engage directly in politics, they might explore the relevance, the implications, and the meaning of such empirical facts as are contained in this and similar studies. Political theory written with reference to practice has the advantage
Bernard Berelson +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
In the Western interpretation of democracy, governments exist in order to manage relations of property, with absence of property ownership leading to exclusion from participation in governance and, in many cases, absence of equal treatment before the law. Democratizing money will therefore ensure equal opportunity to the ownership of property, and thus
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In the Western interpretation of democracy, governments exist in order to manage relations of property, with absence of property ownership leading to exclusion from participation in governance and, in many cases, absence of equal treatment before the law. Democratizing money will therefore ensure equal opportunity to the ownership of property, and thus
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Democratic Aspirations, Democratic Ambiguities
2013Bill Ashcroft articulates the basic difficulty for Said’s work on Palestine/Israel: both “ordinary Israelis and Palestinians are locked into a structure of representations,” he writes, “a binary structure of alterity that originated before the establishment of Israel.”1 Edward Said’s response, according to Ashcroft, should be seen as a form of ...
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Democratizing Finance or Democratizing Money?
Politics & Society, 2019This article extends the critique of finance to money itself. It argues that our understanding of money has been distorted by a series of myths about its origin and nature, in particular, the claim that money emerged from the adoption of precious metal coinage in market systems.
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Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal
2012The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted.
Ian Marsh, Raymond Miller
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